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Better Odds of Dying From an Asteroid Than Being Hit By a Bus

Believe it or not, the chance that you will be cremated by an asteroid are three times greater than that of being killed by a bus or train. At least that's the conclusion of a book titled "Life: The Odds" by Gregory Baer . If you are talking about small asteroids (less than, say, the size of a football field), the odds are long. Even though there are plenty of small asteroids floating around Earth's orbit path, they are too small to survive our atmosphere. Medium-sized asteroids...